Hey everyone, have been shooting for some years with the Sony NEX6 for stock footage and images. Guess its outdated now as i see more 4K clips with coming out and i get more rolling shutter rejections.

My choices are the new sony a6600 or the trusty sony A7III. The a6600 has the eye focus in video, no video duration limit and some cool new video features. While the a7III for a slightly higher price is a full frame with crazy good low light capabilities.

What would you advise, which to get.

Hi everyone

Starting this off in response to the discussion on the Pond5 thread.

Discussing on

- How do we push agencies like SS, istock, getty to offer a fair share of royalties
- How do we work with the agencies to prevent the race to the bottom
- What agencies are inherently unfair - low pricing, very low royalty, that should be boycotted
- How can we create enough of an impact to make the agencies correct this

The core ask : a better price and a fair share of royalties. This allows the contributor to invest more into creating better content by allowing more investment into
- Better tools, cameras, lights, locations
- Ability to spend more time on creating better content as they don't have to work a second job just to pay the bills
- Ability to spend more on courses, literature to hone their craft
- Ability to offer fair pay to models, location owners etc
- Avoid contributors from leaving, attract more skilled contributors

Second ask: Since we handover our media to the stock agencies for safekeeping they need to highlight how they will safeguard this media and it's unlawful use

How will this be enforced

• By moving out of agencies that aid the race to the bottom. I'm sure not everyone will move out, but if we can pull enough quality content from there then the users are sure to follow.
• By ensuring that we and artists we know are routed to the fair agencies because that's where they'll find the best content
• Calling out the unfair agencies on social media, through discussions with artists, creative firms etc

Would want all your help on adding more points to this and creating a common writeup that we can share on petitions, mails, social media etc. The idea would be to ensure we get heard and replied to.

Hi everyone

So I've been trying to sell stock as an individual for some time now and i see that many of you sell as a company rather than as a person. On the payments, taxation etc how does this benefit? Should i also be looking at setting up a company to sell stock.

Hi, have just started attempting stock video with some files getting sold. I've currently been a heavy user of warp stabilizer and am planning to get something to help me get more stable shots of walking etc. The contenders are

1. Gimbal like the crane plus ($500), expensive but one of the best in getting smooth shots from my mobile and sony NEX6

2. A small roxant type stabilizer ($30), marginally better than handheld. Need a lot more time to stabilize and can get only level horizon shots. This is mainly to bide time if at all.

What would you all advise? Is the $500 investment worth it?

Hi everyone

I've been trying to learn what moods my sony NEX6 shoots video. Trying to figure out which to use from the top two modes in quality

1. 25FPS progressive at 24Mbps : get more quality per frame and keep size a little low

2. 50FPS progressive at 28Mbps : get more smoothness and a change to make a slowmo later. But since the bit rate is not all that high might lose detail per frame.

The camera saves in AVCHD, I'm using after effects for my editing and exporting it to mp4 compressed

Hey guys

Have been using the model releaser app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pa.modelreleaseapp) and it exports the model release as two images. The problem im facing is that microstock submitter only allows one image as part of the release, and SS rejects that. Suggest, how do i solve this?

What edits do you make before you upload video for stock? I'm using after effects since that allows me to edit multiple videos on one go. What i currently do
1. Stabilizing
2. Contrast and saturation.
3. Curves editing

What I'd want to do and want advise on
1. Color grading
2. Something similar to the split toning of lightroom
3. Gradient filters similar to light room
4. Selective color saturation

What else should i be doing to get a good shot? Do i incorporate movement into shots? Do i keep locked on shots? How do i become a better videographer?

I've been trying to get onboard for a couple of years now. Have been steadily improving my work as well. How do i apply to this site? Has there been a call to artists this year?

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Hi guys

Started video editing for stock and have just figured out a decent flow to it. Would love suggestions to improve this

- load up the 3 videos per session in AE
- make compositions for each and apply a premade set of filters
- start warp stabilizer let it work (takes a ton of time)
- drag vidoes to adobe encoder (this can only be done after warp stabilizer has finished)
- encode and upload using stock submitter

Would love to automate some of this. So that i can define settings and let it encode/stabilize overnight. Can't seem to find a way to do that. Advise please

Have had a strange experience working with after effects with 4k files. When i export using quicktime and h264 i get a 2000X2000 file. I think this is a codec limitation. But then what other ways do i have of getting a 4k compressed file from after effects?

Btw magix editor pro outputs h264 .mp4 files perfectly.

Hey everyone, started stock video some time back. Have been shooting 4K shots using a phone. The cam file usually is about 150MB for a 20sec 4k shot. However converting it to .mov using H264 seems to bloat this to 300+MB. Is there a way to reduce the size, since a smaller size will allow me to upload many more clips per day.

Hi everyone

Been trying my hand at Alamy for some time but with very little luck. So though I might need some advise on what goes where

1. Do I send them my regular MS portfolio? the one on SS, IS and all others (it is RF right)
2. I think editorial goes into RM with them, so does this need exclusive new images
3. I heard travel does well with them, if so then do you guys pick images from your shoot specifically for Alamy?

Looking forward to getting my first few bucks on Alamy. Thanks

Just started having a very strange problem today. Stocksubmitter starts the updater, updates and then gets stuck on the "Starting application" dialogue. I've tried the following

1. restarting the PC
2. uninstalling & Reinstalling stock submitter

Help please